I'm back my good friends after such a long absence, I hope you all enjoy as this is a setup chapter for the next one.

After delivering the plane to Dr. Palmer, the group had met up with Resnov's men and had quickly begun their operation of storming the Diamondback safe house.

"Remember to stay low, we don't know what kind of defenses this safe house possesses." Resnov informed his men and Andrews team over their ear pieces. Both groups where staying low in the cold Russian woods that surrounded the safe house. Each member of Andrews team was paired with several of Resnov's men, and both groups where trying to approach the safe house as quietly as possible.

"Marcus you got anything on the thermal scope?" Andrew asked his friend, who could be found with a team of snipers watching them on a rock ledge above them.

"Negative, all of you are the only ones in my scope." Marcus said as he continued to eye them with his rifle. Since he had sniper training he had been deployed with a team of Resnov's best snipers in order to provide sniper support if needed, and after what happened last time he provided over watch, he was determined to redeem himself.

Suddenly Resnov heard a clicking noise and he froze as disks rose up from the grass all around them, and he knew what they where, "Everybody drop!" he ordered as his men and all of Andrews group fell to the ground. A few of his men where not so lucky as the disks eploded with such power that several of his men where turned into nothing but bloody charred corpses, the worst being turned into a red mist.

"Everyone check in!" Andrew shouted, just to make sure everyone was alright.

"I'm here." Cho replied.

"Still in one piece." Triton answered quickly.

"Punks didn't take me out." Scarlet said angrily.

"Are you alright?" Doreen asked her boyfriend.

"I'm fine," Answered simply, "Doreen are you ok?" Tobias asked his girlfriend with much concern present in his normally calm voice.

"It was close to me, but thankfully my squirrel like reflexes allowed me to hit the deck before I could be blown sky high." Doreen answered which got a sigh of relief from her boyfriend.

"Resnov, you alright?" Andrew asked his Russian ally.

"We lost a few men, but we will make sure their sacrifices where not in vain." Resnov said with a hint of venom in his voice as he felt sorry for the loss of his men. Suddenly gunfire ripped through the forest as a large number of Diamondback soldiers emerged from the other side of the forest and began opening fire on the group.

"Return fire!" Resnov ordered as his men stood up and started to open fire on the enemy soldiers, while Andrews group rose up from the cold grass and began using their powers and abilities to try to fight back against the well trained Diamondback soldiers.

"They know we are here, the time line is jeopardy, if we don't reach the safe house quickly, who knows how many Diamondbacks will be on our ass!" Tobias shouted to everyone as his plasma cannon fired a blast of blue plasma that struck a nearing soldier and rendered him unconscious.

Doreen using her enhanced agility was ducking and weaving around enemy gunfire and she would quickly dispatch any soldier who got within her range. "Give me a challenge, I'm barely breaking a sweat here." Doreen taunted her enemies as she delivered a snap kick to a soldiers neck that rendered him unconscious.

However that snap kick allowed time for an enemy to rush up behind her and was about to pull the trigger and execute the perky squirrel heroine, however Doreen heard a bullet whizz past her head and turned around in time to see a Diamondback soldier stagger backwards, blood squirting out of a bullet hole in the middle of his temple, as he quickly fell unto the cold Russian soil, and she quickly realized who had fired the shot.

"You saved my ass, Marcus, thank you." Doreen shouted into the ear piece as she continued to dodge gunfire.

"Couldn't save you once, I promised I wouldn't let that happen again." Marcus said with a smile as he continued to take down a soldier with every shot he took.

"How many of these guys are there!?" Scarlet snarled as he webbed a soldier to the ground and then launched another one into the air with a powerful uppercut, who was then blasted by a repulser blast from Iron Spider.

"No matter what number, we keep fighting my friends!" Resnov shouted as he downed three more enemies before needing to load a new clip into his AK. Suddenly all the Diamondback soldier ceased fire and fell back into the woods where they where out of range.

"What the hell was that about," Doreen asked openly, "one minute they are on our assess, and the next minute they flee, something doe not seem right." she said in a suspicious tone as she caught her breath after the large amount of fighting she had just been through.

"I agree with SG," Andrew said as he used Doreen's all sign since he didn't want any of the soldiers to learn her identity, "Something tells me we are not going to like what happens next." he said skeptically as a short silence was broken by Dr. Palmer.

"I've tapped into the Diamondback radio frequency, they have been ordered to fall back and regroup, and then return with even bigger numbers since they think you're a larger force than you really are." the doctor informed everyone.

"Shit," Andrew cursed, "what are we supposed to do when they return with superior numbers, I mean we are good, but we will be overrun when they return with over one hundred soldiers." Andrew informed everyone.

"My advice is to go into the woods and take strategic positions and put some cleverly placed traps, the woods might be there advantage, but it can also be yours, your problems in the woods are also a problem for them, so go in their an set up, and prepare for the second wave." Palmer said before the line went dead.

"You got a better plan Resnov, because I sure don't." Tobias asked his Russian colleague.

"We've got no better options, lets use the doctors plan, it's the only option we have." he answered honestly.

"Alright everyone, you heard the doctor, let's get set up and prepare for the next attack." Andrew ordered.